A gran has accidentally gifted her six-year-old granddaughter a book that is crammed full of adult swear words.

Reading is so important for children, it helps to develop their language, communication and speech skills – and the younger you start introducing them to books the better.

So this gran could be forgiven for giving her granddaughter a book as a gift – but the old adage ‘never judge a book by it’s cover’ should have maybe prompted her to open it first…

[twitter] https://twitter.com/Tiffany1985B/status/915400202789326848[/twitter]Mum Tiffany, who is based in the US, shared an anecdote which saw her own mum buying a very adult cartoon book for her daughter.

According to The Sun, Tiffany also hadn’t bothered to inspect its content, but was alerted when her daughter, while reading it with her dad, exclaimed: ‘I don’t even know what this means.’

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In response, he asked his wife: ‘Did your mom get this as a joke? Is this a serious book?’

The hardback book is called If Animals Could Talk and apparently was bought from the kids section of American book chain Barnes & Noble. It features cute illustrations of a bear, a crocodile and a blowfish on its cover.